Permission Denied: /proc/cpuinfo

[wam at HiWAAY.net (William A. Mahaffey III)]

Mark Sargent wrote:

> HI All,
>
> why do I get the below,
>
> [root@status1 ~]# /proc/cpuinfo
> -bash: /proc/cpuinfo: Permission denied
>
> Cheers.
>
> Mark Sargent.


On my (SuSE 8.2) box, that file is an ASCII text file, not executable. Try:

# cat /proc/cpuinfo

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